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Malay-language film "Sayang Disayang" has been selected by Singapore as its contender for foreign-language Academy Awards contention.
The film, about a migrant domestic helper, a nurse and the old man they look after, is the debut feature of Sanif Olek,...

D.p.'s Michael Goi, John Bailey and Judy Irola are among the special award recipients who will be honored in conjunction with the International Cinematographers Guild's Emerging Cinematographer Awards.
The awards will be presented during the ECA...

Now in its 13th year, the San Diego Film Festival, produced by the San Diego Film Foundation, describes itself as "5 Days. 100+ Film Screenings. 2 Film Villages: Gaslamp Quarter & La Jolla" -- a slogan that aptly reflects the scope of the five-day event....

In an early sale on one of its flagship titles at Toronto, Paris-based Wide Management has licensed scribe-helmer Shonali Bose's late-teen romantic drama "Margarita, With a Straw" to Japan's Aya Pro.
Deal closed after "Margarita's" Monday world...

Like the intensely single-minded drummer Miles Teller plays in "Whiplash," its writer-director, Damien Chazelle, did not arrive on the world stage unprepared. In fact, exactly one year before his white-knuckle feature won Sundance's grand jury prize,...

Sellers at this week's Toronto Film Festival hope to ride the wave of Cannes and Sundance, which saw a healthy number of deals close earlier in the year. But by no means does that suggest that the movie business is in full recovery.
"The market is bigger...

During the height of the recession, producer Judy Cairo managed to break into the feature film business with a smallish indie called "Crazy Heart" through her Informant Media banner.
Since "Crazy Heart" became a major hit with Oscars for lead actor...

Reality TV these days is no longer just a comforting block of Velveeta sitting on your DVR. It has strapped on a Mexican wrestling mask and peacocks its ridiculousness around the ring.
So it's refreshing when a series does its best to cut down on the...

Paula van der Oest's thriller drama "Accused" ("Lucia de B.") will represent the Netherlands in the race for foreign-language nominations at the Academy Awards.
"Accused," which is based on a true story of Lucia de Berk and penned by Moniek Kramer and...

Big-bucks movies -- "Sister Act," "Ghost," "Flashdance," "Dirty Dancing," to name a few -- get turned into stage musicals with some frequency. Indie films form a smaller screen-to-boards subset. Of these, "Once," based on the minuscule-budget, shot-in-17-...

Long before Gordon Gekko, Liberace and “Fatal Attraction’s” Dan Gallagher, Michael Douglas gained fame, and an Oscar, for producing “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” The film took best picture and a bevy of other...